[Talk-GB] beetroot or beet

[Warin]

On 10-Jan-17 12:44 PM, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 10/01/17 01:20, David Groom wrote:
>> ...
>> Tag info shows 579 ways tagged with crop = beet, of these 572 are in 
>> northern Italy added by 3 users, so its probably quite easy to ask 
>> what exactly they meant by "beet" , and retag these existing ways if 
>> they actually should be beetroot.
>
> In the UK I could hazard a guess as to whether sugarbeet or something 
> else based on the proximity to one of British Sugar's plants such as 
> Newark or Peterborough, but in Northern Italy asking the mapper 
> definitely seems like a good idea.

There are lots of  'beets' ... different kinds of plants that is.
http://www.webcitation.org/6Fu9TOBWl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au%2FSorting%2FBeta.html

Having viewed that ... I think the value can be left as beet... it maybe 
viewed as 'generic'  for all the different kinds.

I am only familiar with beetroot ... but I have changed the wiki 
description to
"Beet field, many different kinds, beetroot and sugarbeet being two. "

It was ""Beet field"

If necessary to identify a particular beet then a further tag could be 
added
beet=beetroot, sugarbeet, sea_beat etc...


>
> Another caveat in the UK - crops are often rotated (and planted based 
> on price expectation) so what is beet one year is barley the next, and 
> perhaps oil-seed rape after that.  Essentially, where this variation 
> happens it'd be difficult to trust any "crop" tag over a year old.
>

There is at least one instance of multiple values separated by  ; I'd 
think that would be one way of mapping crop rotation values? Rendering 
is another problem.